All this for $12.50 in 1947.
North Dakota in 1966 (Did they have open wire then?)
She was a "10"
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Friday, October 18, 2024
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I didn't have traction bars and couldn't afford Cragars, but everything else was accurate.
ReplyDeletePeaowed, congratulations!
DeleteThe wires are telegraph and/or telephone wires. Probably alongside a railroad track. They are also on short poles, typically 18' to the bottom wire.
ReplyDeleteAnon, I've seen a lot of telephone open wire around here, being a retired telephone cable splicer. I don't believe I've ever seen telegraph wire. Telephone wires cross quite often and I don't see that here.
DeleteI worked AT&T / SWBT for 40 years. We had "Toll" (long distance) open wire running cross-country or alongside RR Tracks even into the 1980's. Most of it was cut dead earlier than that but was left up because it was either too hard to get to or was mixed in with "exchange" (local service) working wire on the arms, and we did not want to cause trouble. Some was left up for years, even when everything was dead. Usually, a winter storm would come through and ice would take down a mile or two, and while it was down the lead would be wrecked as far as it could be - sometimes the whole way. Lots of glass insulators dropped in the hole, and crossarms removed and left (with the poles) for the land owner to salvage.
DeleteAnon@12:47, I was AT&T, Pac Bell, and then Southwest Bell after they bought Pac Bell. I was with them for 30 years. As you, I remember open wire toll.
Delete1 and 2. She was a 7, 8 at best.
ReplyDeleteedutcher, she'll always be a 10 in my eyes.
DeleteAgreed.
DeleteStill looks better than most today.
I have to agree with her still being a 10. Quality never goes out of style.
DeleteMe, Why do I feel like I'm talking to myself? I always thought she was a 10.
DeletePigpen51, she still looks great to me.
DeleteSenta Berger was a 10. Skinny never beat sumptuous.
Deleteedutcher, OK, OK, we all have different tastes.
DeleteSome of us even found Xena, the Warrior Princess to be stimulatingly attractive.
DeleteAgree - a 10 then and now. PLUS, it looks like she has not had work done over the years, allowing herself to age gracefully, unlike most of hollywood.
DeleteElmo, I got stimulated just posting her.
DeleteRick Happ, I totally agree.
DeleteGot married in a small country church, one of my classmates and his twin brother showed up in tuxes with four mounted custom rims under their arms which I can only assume came from the Midnight auto Supply!
ReplyDeleteThey mounted them on my gold w31 ram air olds, right in front of the church while the ceremony was still in progress!
Anon, ah wedding gifts.
Delete#2) Atlanta housewife Ann Cox Williams, Life Magazine 1947
ReplyDelete#4) Still a 10 for me.
#6) Man, those burgers look so good.
#9) I ate at a few of those lunch counters. The Woolworth in our town didn't have a lunch counter but the W.T. Grants did and I ate there often.
Edward, that's quite a memory you have. You can't beat In-n-Out Burger for the west coast's best burger. What was pictured there were four Double-Doubles. I like mine with grilled onions instead of the sliced onions.
DeleteWe had lunch counters galore where I grew up. I also think see's a 10.
#3
ReplyDeleteTelegraph line poles
Anon, positive?
DeleteGood stuff today Maynard! I stole the Chevy/Dodge/Ford EV shit meme! I would still date and swoon over Bo, she is more than a 10.
ReplyDeleteCederq, she's still a hottie.
DeleteStill a 10! Almost all of the W.T.Grant's had a counter, the Grant City stores had a restaurant.
ReplyDeletehjets, where I grew up we had Broadway stores. They had parking on the roof and a restaurant.
Delete1. That seems to be the case a lot these days, doesn't it?
ReplyDelete2. And fresh cut from a butcher, at that.
3. Louisiana has open wire, if I understand the term. Water table is too high to bury it.
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5. Haha. What a name.
6. Don't make them like that any more.
7. True.
8. Good cars then.
9. We had one but I never ate at one.
10. ookay.
Thanks, Odie.
You all be safe and God bless.
LindaG, #3: I think you're confusing open wire with cable. Open wire is one single wire with no insulation around it. It can't be buried because they would all interact with each other and be worthless. The wires under the snow, in the picture, are probably worthless until the snow melts.
DeleteCable, on the other hand, is made up of individually insulated wires inside of a protective sheath. It is made to go underground or aerial.
Oh. Okay. Thank you, Odie. That's not what I thought it was then. :)
DeleteThat's an excellent explanation, Odie.
DeleteYou're not just another pretty face, are you?
LindaG, welcome.
DeleteAnon, that's right. I'm a special kind of pretty face.
DeleteI'd rather see Bo age naturally than wreck her face with botox and plastic surgery like all those other self centered weirdos.
ReplyDeleteMikey, I believe she's 69 in the photo. Use your own judgement.
DeleteThere were Woolie’s in the UK when I was stationed over there in the 80’s & early 90’s. None that I went into had the lunch counter. Remember one in the Grant’s in my upstate NY hometown tho.
ReplyDeletep2, I believe all the lunch counters were gone by the 80's.
DeleteSo the groceries for $12.50
ReplyDeleteFrom talking to parents and grand parents, I think that was 2 to 3 days of income especially in the south.
I can buy that with 2 days of income in the south today.
What it shows is how much the Fed. Has devalued the dollar in 80 years.
solarman, It's a good lesson in voting habits.
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